Answer 10 of the following questions, using about 300 words for each response:
Identify ways that globalization is a sustainability problem.
Identify ways that corporations are a sustainability problem.
Describe how U.S. law, in some instances, is a sustainability problem.
Describe how science can be a sustainability problem.
Describe ways that mainstream media is a sustainability problem
Identify key characteristics of the best environmental media (recognizing that few films or other media are likely to have more than a few of these characteristics).
In a 2010 NY Magazine article, Jon Stewart describes his media team as "Soil enrichers. Maybe we can add a little fertilizer to the soil so that real people can come along and grow things.” What does Stewart mean, and how persuaded are you by the metaphor? The NY Magazine article is "America is a Joke"
Design a film intended to educate a particular audience about sustainability problem. Describe the audience you intend to reach, and its characteristics (biases, ignorance, expertise, etc); the aim of the film; its narrative structure and its content.
How is the advertising industry a sustainability problem? Discuss the environmental implications of “communication for commerce,” the effort to create emotional connections between consumers, commodities and companies, and the cultivation of “loyalty beyond reason” (The Persuaders). Also discuss whether sustainability advocates should borrow techniques from the adverting industry to advance their message.
Discuss how investment in sustainability and “going green” can be a sustainability problem?
Discuss how Internet communication and other forms of new media are sustainability problems, as well as a means to sustainability solutions.
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Answer 10 of the following questions, using about 300 words for each response:
List five sustainability problems denoted by Al Gore is this recent NYTimes editorial:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/opinion/28gore.html?th&emc=th
In a 2010 NY Magazine article, Jon Stewart describes his media team as "Soil enrichers. Maybe we can add a little fertilizer to the soil so that real people can come along and grow things.” What does Stewart mean, and how persuaded are you by the metaphor? The NY Magazine article is "America is a Joke"
Design a film intended to educate a particular audience about sustainability problem. Describe the audience you intend to reach, and its characteristics (biases, ignorance, expertise, etc); the aim of the film; its narrative structure and its content.
How is the advertising industry a sustainability problem? Discuss the environmental implications of “communication for commerce,” the effort to create emotional connections between consumers, commodities and companies, and the cultivation of “loyalty beyond reason” (The Persuaders). Also discuss whether sustainability advocates should borrow techniques from the adverting industry to advance their message.
Discuss how investment in sustainability and “going green” can be a sustainability problem?
Discuss how Internet communication and other forms of new media are sustainability problems, as well as a means to sustainability solutions.